While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.
The teacher should regard the pupil as his child. The pupil should regard the teacher as his parent.
For what can be known about God is plain to all, because God is plain to all, because God has shown it to them. Ever since creation of the world His invisible nature, namely His eternal power has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
